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Preparing for Work: The EFF Work Readiness Course

An Open Training for Instructors in Adult Education and Workforce Development
December 2-3, 2009
West Palm Beach, FL

Register online today at: http://www.cls.utk.edu/register/eff_event.asp

Click here for the flyer which contains all registration and travel information.
 For more information, please contact Anna Bogle at abogle at utk.edu

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 Join us for the EFF Online Reading Mini-course:

Matching Purposes and Strategies (Skimming, Scanning, and Careful Reading)
This focused, practical course contains immediately applicable techniques and resources to improve your students’ reading comprehension and fluency! 

Course Dates:  November 16th - December 4th  - take the Thanksgiving holiday off OR use it to complete course assignments!
Course length/style: 6 hours independent and self-paced work, with facilitator support.
Cost:  only $149/person

Register online now! http://www.cls.utk.edu/register/eff_event.asp (choose EFF Online Courses 2009-2010)
Register by November 9th – class limited to 20 participants! Registrants will be invoiced at time of e-mail confirmation.

Course Facilitator: Mary Siedow - an expert in the field of reading and adult education.  Course communication is via e-mail – Participants must register with a valid e-mail address!

Course Content:  This course overviews effective reading processes of skilled readers with a focus on techniques to improve students’ skills in: a) determining reading purpose, and b) reading strategy selection to match that purpose. Course offers techniques for teaching students how to effectively and quickly skim and scan texts for information, as well as how to determine when more careful reading is necessary. Focusing on the nation’s need for workforce development, the course uses work-based text examples;  principles of the course, however, do apply to any type of text. Course contains handouts on methods for scaffolding instruction,  determining reading purpose, and using a reading diarywith adult education students.

Course Technological Requirements/Recommendations:
To be successful in this course, your computer should have:

• Windows XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.5 or better
• Unfrustrating Internet Access: broadband access – DSL or better
• Windows Internet Explorer 7.0 or better, Safari 4.0 or better, Firefox
• Access to a printer is strongly recommended.

Participants will complete a Computer “Tech Check” the week of November 9th – November 13th, with online technical support available to assist with any participant technical issues.